Sometimes we have a tendency to want to judge others. We seem to always forget that our God is THE judge almighty. We are forgiven sinners in His eyes as long as we repent and ask for forgiveness. As true believers we are not perfect. I have to remind myself as I have in my blogs before that we do not proclaim ourselves Christian because we are perfect and strong and have it all together. We are a Christian because we are weak and readily admit that we need a Savior.

It is always difficult and dangerous to attempt to list sins according to their degree of seriousness. In one sense, all sins are equal in that they all separate us from God. The Bible’s statement, “For the wages of sin is death …” (Romans 6:23), applies to all sin, whether in thought, word, or deed. Yet, remember that Jesus paid for our sins and if we will repent and turn to Jesus in faith, our sins will be forgiven, and we will receive the gift of eternal life.

Windows signify the things of the internal sight that is, of the understanding which in one word are called intellectual things.

A young couple moved in next door and immediately their next door neighbors notice that the wife hangs their laundry out. The neighbor makes a comment that “this new neighbor’s laundry sure doesn’t look good, I wonder is she is not using the correct washing powder”?

Every time she hangs it the neighbor notices the very same thing as from the last time she hung them out. About a month goes by and she continues to admonish her neighbor and her “dirty laundry”. Then the very next day she notices how clean and nice it has become. She tells her husband that their new neighbors have finally learned how to clean their clothes. “Do you think someone taught her how to wash correctly?

The husband replies “I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows.”

A significant part of a person’s character is his moral condition, and in Scripture the eye often expresses the moral attitudes of a man. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ uses the eye—whether it is full of light or darkness—as the symbol of the moral quality of a man’s heart (Mt. 5:23-24).

When Christ speaks of hypocrisy and lack of forgiveness, he references the eye again in a classic hyperbole from the gospels, “Why do see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?”(Mt. 7.3) Peter speaks of false teachers who infiltrate the church as having “eyes full of adultery” (2 Pet. 2:14). The eyes truly are the “windows to the soul” in Scripture, exhibiting the condition of people’s moral character, and Christ often fingers his hearer’s moral condition with the image of the eye.

“Look, the LORD takes notice of (lit., the eye of the LORD [is] toward) his loyal followers, those who wait for him to demonstrate his faithfulness” (Ps. 33:18).

Sometimes eyes are used in reference to God. Of course God does not have physical eyes as a person has. References to God’s “eyes” are used as human images to help us understand something about God.

In the Bible the eye is the organ of perception, and perception involves more than physical sight.

Eyes and sight are often used figuratively to indicate understanding or ignorance. We have used a term with “eyes” in our everyday walk of life. Terms such as “eye-catching” or that was an “eye opener” and when it comes to sports we tend to ask someone to “keep our eye on the ball” or to keep “our eyes on the prize.” “Keep our eyes peeled” and if we are good at what we do we “have and eye for it” and a really good decorator “has an eye for color.” When we understand a point that a teacher makes, we say, “Oh, I see now.” When we do not plan ahead, we are said to be “short-sighted,” or conversely when we do plan strategically, we are “far-sighted.” When we ignore an action, we “turn a blind eye” toward it, and when we disapprove of an action, we “take a dim view of” it. When we supervise a project, we take “oversight” of it.

And…. so it is with life-what we see when watching others depends on the clarity of the window through which we look.